Amazing precision of a DIY Wire EDM machine

This video demonstrates what kind of precision is possible on a DIY wire EDM machine.
Plans for this machine are available for free on www.baxedm.com

[@thelegendarybovice]

Builds custom EDM to precision cut metals Same guy: "I don't have an oven"

[@JakeWitmer]

He doesn't have an air-tight argon-containing oven. That's different than "a household oven."

[@achislen]

Have you noticed that behind a great open hardware project there always is an industry professional who has done it as a hobby on the side. Chris Annin comes to mind with his robot arm, mechmate router table team, stm32 2.5kW open hardware servo drive and others I would give Mike top place on this arena for his arc generator. That's short of a revolution!

[@SayHiToPie]

Hi! Do you have a Link to the 2.5kw drive? It sounds very intersting but i cannot find it.... Thank you!

[@goodfis624]

I'm looking for that 2.5kW servo too... google didnt help me D:

[@JoshuaElsdon]

@@goodfis624 @SayHiToPi The project called "Odrive" found by searching "Odriverobotics" is a cool project along these lines. I have used them to make servo drives from quad-copter style motors.

[@goodfis624]

@@JoshuaElsdon Ah you meant ODrive. Yeah, its quite known project. One can even buy complete driver PCB on aliexpress/ebay

[@JamecBond]

Agreed, this is how innovation is supposed to work, not the bullshit corporate America pushes nowadays

[@Liberty4Ever]

This is the perfect project for the person who has built a LinuxCNC milling machine, LinuxCNC lathe, LinuxCNC laser, and LinuxCNC router.

[@gwharton68]

Absolutely amazing machine. If I was about 40 - 50 years younger, I would start building immediately. Thanks a lot for the design.

[@mickeyromeo]

if i were*

[@kimkong9622]

@@mickeyromeo its so f....up importand? you teacher! are you normal?

[@kimkong9622]

@@bourbon_sketcher idiot !

[@MiguelRodriguez2010]

Perfect example of someone that finds solutions instead of excuses! Bravo Sir!

[@waypoint8865]

As someone who loves home shop equipment, I love that you made this open source for everyone. I don’t even know if I’ll make one but it’s still awesome to go look through the cad files you made available. Thanks so much! Looking forward to your future content!

[@InebriatedEngineer]

Excellent video on precision, material tension, and tolerance! Seeing the EDM in action was an added bonus. Thanks for posting! 🍻

[@Shreyam_io]

GREAT TO HAVE YOU BACK... dAMN I WAS THINKING OF THIS TOPIC LATELY

[@taichiveron9278]

Wow, it's really great precision. I worked with Soviet EDM machine. And you know, your machine more accuracy. I wont to repeat this. Thx from Ukraine. Sorry for my English.

[@delta911turbo]

Never seen an EDM machine before, but impressive with you completed project... Did not expect it to come out that perfectly.

[@wernerberry7800]

Really amazing/awesome Mike!! Great Job! I am getting very close to making cuts with my custom BaxEDM machine! Can't wait! You are a great inspiration! Thanks so much for sharing!

[@ReubenSchoots]

Thanks for this video. Time to start planning my own build. Few projects need to be finished off first. So glad to have stumbled upon your channel. Cheers, Reuben

[@Adok24]

The end product demonstration got a smile on my face. Amazing job mate! 👍🏼

[@excitedbox5705]

Awesome to see the EDM finished after following it for so long. I would love to build one myself, but I know I have to many projects on my plate already.

[@RinoaL]

OK this is really amazing.

[@knrdash]

AvE will find this next. Just watch.

[@niklar55]

VERY satisfying! Many years ago I learned _about_ EDM, but have never seen it in action, till now! Thanks. .

[@Copablanca]

Knap gedaan man ! Mooi om naar te kijken. Dank voor de post en de genomen moeite.

[@ZappyOh]

Thanks for the detailed walk through.

[@Bartyron]

24:00 Pure ASMR! Bedankt voor het posten en de link. Super interessant!

[@mikemyers9615]

Bought a book several months back on building an EDM machine from scratch, by Ben Fleming, but it's 10 years old, and I'd like to get one running this year if possible. Added my name to your list and anxiously awaiting your completion of the next arc generator production run. Thanks for the time and effort.

[@edgymushroom]

What's the book called?

[@mikemyers9615]

@@edgymushroom "Build a Pulse EDM Machine - The Next Generation" by Ben Fleming. It's a bit pricey at $50.00, and about 10 years old, but useful information if you want to try building one from scratch. I opted to purchase one of the BAXEDM arc generators to start, as I want to get a working machine running ASAP. Here's a email where you can probably get info on getting the book: [e-mail] .

[@kimkong9622]

bravo. DO IT...

[@GetMeThere1]

This is a positively STUNNING demonstration!

[@SeanHodgins]

Thats an incredible machine!

[@txm100]

Hello Sean! :)

[@zyxwvut4740]

You should run the footage of the sinking "M" in reverse so it looks like it's rising by itself.

[@802Garage]

KZbin did a good job with this recommendation. Glad this video is doing so well for you!

[@diego_garcia_cacho]

Woooow, damn thanks for such a complete video, all the workflow, tolerancing,mistakes, and solutions. My hat is off! I'm gonna check those machine plans

[@DaSmokeDaddy]

Very nice. Another great video. Thanks for taking the time to put it together.

[@dgkimpton]

That fit... wow! Such a satisfying moment when you let it go and it drifted into place. Thanks for sharing :D

[@sebastienc8797]

Impressive achievement. Congratulations on realising such a precise thing !

[@sebaschtl9710]

you are the blind spot of diy machinery that i was missing so long. thanks a lot for your work. If I could, I would start building EDM right now. Hope the community will grow to demystification this dark corner of properitary knowledge.

[@tezsullivan6048]

Brilliant results. Thank you for the video.

[@Jynxx_13]

Makes my shop standard of 1/32" look like a mile wide gap. Well done!!

[@joaohenriques7557]

Amazing content, as always!

[@siegmundeurades5753]

Absolutely amazing, I've got no other words to describe it.

[@RennieAsh]

Magnificent, Miraculous, Marvellous, Masterful, Majestic, Mezmerising

[@_BangDroid_]

@@RennieAsh Excellent Demonstration of Machining

[@alexkart9239]

outstanding, incredible, impressive

[@davidandrews8566]

That was a delight to watch. 👏

[@sdunca4864]

Subscribed and thank you- I appreciate your content! this is what I have been searching for.

[@mattymcsplatty5440]

sick tolerances made. Oddly satisfying to watch parts of precision from a seal and float into position. Love that you can barely see the joins.

[@vermin6107]

instant sub! This is just incredible and the gesture of making it freely available is just astounding

[@ninetysixfirebird]

I have run Agie Wire Machines for over 10 years. Cool video man, I’d love to have one at home to use!!

[@bsimpson6204]

I had a nipple cut out of a vintage brake callipers by EDF, it worked very well. The two guys at the machine shop showed me what they generally did, cutting out parts from Inconel, the precision and finish they achieved was just amazing

[@pierke110]

Nice Mike, very nice. BaxEdm👌

[@crazytrutas]

Bloody nice work! Congrats.

[@nibbler2281]

Thats satisfying. I've worked with 2 different large EDM's and they are quite incredible. Nice work.

[@moniquemorskate4349]

What a piece of work! Outstanding performance👌👌👌

[@paulmorskate5818]

Very Nice Mike, good job on the video and a very good job on the machine and the fitting parts

[@AM-dn4lk]

That was super amazing. Thank you for sharing.

[@aries6776]

Incredible work!

[@_Kensky]

Wspaniała maszyna, gratulacje

[@laddcraner4170]

Amazing video, tyvm!!

[@stevensmart8868]

This is really good work. Well done.

[@larrykent196]

Nicely done. Interesting and impressive the work and your results. Cheers!

[@borisjulich2947]

That video is an inspiration and super impressive. Many thanks!

[@3DCGdesign]

holy smokes! Amazing! Congrats, and thank you for keeping it open source. I don't know if I will build one, but I want one!

[@neuijengereedschapmakerij5587]

@20:15 "the glue did not work perfectly, there is still a very small little burr" This is because by using glue you electrically isolate the product when performing the remnant cut. The moment you cut the product loose from the material there is nothing that connects your part with the groundof the machine so the last bit will stay on it. When you use some kind of conducting vice , it will cut away the last bit of the burr, and you would even be able to skim that part, so you dont need to "stone" the part.

[@PiGood]

Magnets are the solution in this setting. For a detail that small a large flat coated magnet would be more than capable of maintaining the details position, and act as pass thru for the current at the same time.

[@scotttod6954]

@@PiGood That is a great idea. I was wondering if mixing CA glue and printer toner and used that as a glue to secure and conduct current. Guess you could just secure it with a second chuck clamping it from the other axis added for final cut too though.

[@darkracer1252]

even before cutting it loose. the resistance is increasing as less material is available and it just stop conducting before it's cut loose. the wire deflects into the main piece and leaves a burr

[@PiGood]

@@scotttod6954 Given my experience, in the event of non magnetic materials it would likely be easier to just use the glue to maintain the details position and contact/clamp a grounding cable to the detail. May cause some imperfections in the surface if the ground cable arcs but given the application here that would be more than adequate.

[@PiGood]

@@darkracer1252 Not quite, the bur is mostly the two .006" ish radius left by the entrance cut and when the Slug becomes Isolated from the ground.

[@soccerkenshin]

Thank you so much for sharing!

[@MM-hc9nr]

I was genuinely happy for you man! 😂 I was so excited at the end fit. I need to research this machine. Sub’d!!!

[@divyajnana]

THAT IS very satisfying! The result looks like science fiction. Great work and thank you.

[@reneestrada1148]

Wow! Lovely work Sr. Great content😎

[@melgross]

Ah, and here I was excited to see that you making MY first initial. I wish I had the time to build one of these as I’ve always wanted one. There are parts I simply can’t make using my mill and lathes. Even welding parts together that I can make doesn’t do it. And until 3D metal printing comes down in price, that’s out too. Great job. I think I’ll stick around. There’s nothing like living vicariously.

[@Chris-du7hi]

I wouldn't mind more edm project videos, this was cool.

[@makingtolearn]

Outstanding work. Super, super impressive.

[@laurentthommet8313]

Totaly amazing 😉 great job!

[@Marius_CN]

Super vidéo. Merci.

[@agentjwa]

I used to work for a company that made high precision flexures like the one you made, the movement was done with stacks of piezo-electric tiles that change length when a dc current is supplied. The power supplies were up to 20 bit resolution over a 10micron(10e-6m) distance, meaning the you could step the distance ((10e-6)/(2^20))=9.5e-12m or 9.5 picometers.

[@mhannebert]

Hum… This is less than the size of an atom…

[@ilikewaffles3689]

@@mhannebert aka fake

[@andrewcady8827]

@@ilikewaffles3689 Nanomachines are real tho

[@zachcrawford5]

Wouldn't Heisenberg's uncertainty principle get in the way of such precision?

[@Flumphinator]

@@zachcrawford5 the Planck length is 10^23 times smaller. Space is crazy.

[@joewhitney4097]

Very interesting video. I am basically new to anything "edm" so this was a fantastic learning experience. Thanks for sharing.

[@kinbolluck476]

No thank you for watching

[@ianskeldon6032]

Fantastic, thank you for sharing with us.

[@mikecurtin9831]

Several very useful tips on how to avoid problems. Thanks very much. Liked and subscribed.

[@dragontop5998]

WOW! Really great job!

[@kimkong9622]

Thanks so much!

[@09591000]

Thanks a Lot! Good engineering.

[@randomhuman1965]

GREAT VIDEO!!

[@Delfintus]

Wow, thanks for your video, will try to reproduce, thanks a lot!

[@JesseSchoch]

modern magic, lovely to watch!

[@harshadraut1801]

I am surely gonna try this one.. keep this cool parts coming up!!👍

[@cave-works]

Thank you very much

[@Junkboy888]

Oh the possibility of that machine in the hobby tinkers world. Super work. Great video!

[@invisiblealex007]

excellent job!

[@Netbug]

Awesome. Thanks!

[@sup3rbird]

WOW indeed! Congratulations on a very nice fit.

[@frankierutherford1888]

Very interesting project you have here. I will be watching your progress. Thank you for you patients respect for beginners in this field.

[@StephenCoda]

Nice. Amazing job!

[@erg0centric]

I already have the Ikea clamp light, just have to build the rest. Beautiful work you've done there.

[@MrRosalez23]

its so nice to see that close tolerance

[@MrBhujbalgv]

Best diy vedio on KZbin 😀 great sir. Thanks for sharing 🙏

[@sdoc3]

Seriously under-appreciated content! Sub'd and liked!

[@ultimatehandyman]

I have seen professional EDM machines before, but never a DIY version. I'm really impressed with it. How much would it cost for the components to make one from your website?

[@kilrain_dev]

I also want to know the cost :)

[@fingineer2439]

YT channel called Applied Science made a DIY EDM drill if I recall correctly, check it out.

[@maxx1nsane]

The arc generator is ~3000 euros. A little bit above my budget. Amazing device though. LE: autocorrect

[@aetch77]

@@maxx1nsane People were building arks over 2 millennia ago. There was this famous one built by someone called Noah...

[@maxx1nsane]

@@aetch77 thanks, autocorrect on my phone decided I meant “ark”

[@JohnTurner313]

Nice work!!

[@mamuteddymad]

That IS incredibly satisfying. 🔥 specially being able to do it at home.

[@sairashaikh2190]

Thank brother it is superb

[@paulodeoliveira3368]

This would be awesome for puzzles.

[@benjamin548]

Loved you showed your mistakes as well in a normal, "it happens" way. Kudos!

[@user-hg8qg1nb3o]

It's amazing work. !!! excellent !!!

[@X400DYL]

WOW, superb quality

[@blur-media-co3512]

THIS IS INCREDIBLE! I HAVE TO MAKE ONE.

[@kingfishstacy]

Amazing! Beautiful!

[@larrysmurthwaite773]

Ya got me, new subscriber! Looks like a great addition to my shop. So cool!

[@jonasstockton1546]

That's amazing you built this. Subing immediately

[@divadyrdnal]

Beautiful!

[@Timbo868]

Imagine combining Japanese joinery with Wire EDM machine!!

[@JohnRR]

Ik geloof dat ik een nieuw hobby spaardoel heb. Dank!

[@dbturbonub2536]

You earned yourself a subscriber!